After making that statement, another thought burrowed into Yang Qing's mind.
"What would a dark yin water oak treefolk or an aurora dark winter jade spruce tribe want with Bai Chen?" he muttered, his expression turning pensive. A glaring thought pushed its way to the forefront of his suspicions: Frozen Serenity Scripture.
It didn't take much for his mind to go there. From the moment he learned about this case, a part of him had suspected that Bai Chen's disappearance—along with his disciple and the others aboard the ship—might have something to do with the Frozen Serenity Sect and its legacy art.
Now, hearing about treefolk with an affinity for yin-related qi, he couldn't help but wonder if Bai Chen's cultivation of a subset art of the Frozen Serenity Scripture had made him a target. After all, the arts tied to the Frozen Serenity Scripture were deeply rooted in yin energy, even if they didn't require nebulous yin qi for cultivation.